Crossword clues for loiter
loiter
- Hang back
- Kill time
- Linger aimlessly
- Mill around
- Hang around too long
- Remain without a reason
- Just hang around
- Hang around aimlessly
- Stand around aimlessly
- Linger idly
- Linger around a store without purpose
- Hang without purpose
- Hang around
- Don't make oneself useful
- Defy a convenience store ban, in a way
- Hang out for a while
- Hang around idly
- Stick around
- Not leave
- Hang around a public place
- Waste time in one place
- Dawdle
- Spend time idly
- Emulate 47 Down
- Hand around
- Stay in an aimless way
- Linger and look into Ebro, oddly
- Be slow to introduce sex to role playing
- Hang around for no good reason
- Hang around cloister after chapter and saint have left
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loiter \Loi"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Loitered; p. pr. & vb. n. Loitering.] [D. leuteren to delay, loiter; cf; Prov. G. lottern to be louse, lotter louse, slack, unsettled, vagrant, OHG. lotar.]
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To be slow in moving; to delay; to linger; to be dilatory; to spend time idly; to saunter; to lag behind.
Sir John, you loiter here too long.
--Shak.If we have loitered, let us quicken our pace.
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To wander as an idle vagrant. [Obs.]
--Spenser.Syn: To linger; delay; lag; saunter; tarry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "idle one's time, dawdle over work," from Middle Dutch loteren "be loose or erratic, shake, totter" like a loose tooth or a sail in a storm; in modern Dutch, leuteren "to delay, linger, loiter over one's work." Probably cognate with Old English lutian "lurk," and related to Old English loddere "beggar;" Old High German lotar "empty, vain," luzen "lurk;" German Lotterbube "vagabond, rascal," lauschen "eavesdrop;" Gothic luton "mislead;" Old English lyðre "base, bad, wicked." Related: Loitered; loitering.
Wiktionary
vb. To stand about without any aim or purpose; to stand about idly; to linger; to hang around.
WordNet
v. be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around]
Wikipedia
In aeronautics and aviation, loiter is a phase of flight. The phase consists of cruising for a certain amount of time over a small region. The loiter phase occurs, for general aviation, generally at the end of the flight plan, normally when the plane is waiting for clearance to land.
In military flights, such as aerial reconnaissance or ground-attack aircraft, the loiter phase is time the aircraft has over a target. Cruise is the time period the aircraft travels to the target and returns after the loiter.
In astronautics, the loiter phase of spacecraft used for human spaceflight may be as long as six months, as is the case for Soyuz spacecraft which remain docked while expedition crewmembers reside aboard the International Space Station.
Loiter may refer to:
- Loitering, in law, the act of remaining in a particular public place for a protracted time
- Loiter (flight), in aviation, cruising for a certain amount of time over a small region
Usage examples of "loiter".
These people also he deemed well before the world, for they were well clad and buxom, and made no great haste as they went, but looked about them as though they deemed the world worth looking at, and as if they had no fear either of a blow or a hard word for loitering.
Working through wicked airs and deadly dews That make the laden robber grin askance At the good places in his black romance, And the poor, loitering harlot rather choose Go pinched and pined to bed Than lurk and shiver and curse her wretched way From arch to arch, scouting some threepenny prey.
When I reached the ancient capital of the world, I possessed only seven paoli, and consequently I did not loiter about.
I strongly suspected that Margot had cloistered herself within the spun-sugar confines of her home, so I retreated to the Embarcadero Center and loitered on the level where the pedestrian walkway linked it to the condominium complex.
I was assured that the interior of the country was more inviting, and I was advised to lose no time in getting on my land, for it had been observed, that more than one emigrant who had lost his time in loitering over the town, gaping and staring about, and fretting and complaining because all things did not come easy to his hand, had soon got rid of so much of his money, as not to have enough left to establish himself and carry him through the first year.
Failsafe done for loitering outside that shop Gluck pinched in Chelsea.
Loitering about there, Sergeant Hoong came to a large public bathhouse.
The tribe was still loitering about the clearing where stood the hut that Tarzan and Bertha Kircher had built.
Above the swept marble stair, the copper-leafed doors of the council hall stood closed and latched behind guards in red-and-gold livery who held back the crowding, raucous throng which loitered to stare and speculate.
He decided not to press his luck by loitering at the terminal any longer.
With a little business and a good deal of loitering, waiting upon the whim of his pen, Irving passed the weary months of the war.
I could not but share in the enthusiasm of those about me, when loitering near the very ground sacred to the inspiration.
We three have waited here for you, as instructed, taking turns at loitering close by this fountain.
Again one of the sprites climbed to the altitude of the airship, loitering for a few moments on fanning wings before whipping off to rejoin the others.
One or two servitors stalked through the crowd, and occasionally a golden float-cam would bob through the air, loitering over a scene of interest like a single detached eyeball.